I am not sure what this is called in English. But since this is so Japanese, I call it as we usually do here. This is Tatami. Tatami is a Japanese flooring rug thingy. It's made of woven straw. As it ages, it gets brownish and doesn't have any smell anymore. I have a Japanese room in my apartment. Yesterday, I called this Tatami place and asked them to replace Tatami. It cost me some but it was about time this had to be replaced anyway. The new tatami. It smells like fresh woven straw. It's fresh. Nice. :-) It's been awhile I smelled this fresh. I do have to apologize that I cannot describe this fresh smell as I don't have huge vocab in English. When the Tatami guy finished his thing, I inhaled to capture this fresh smell. This smell makes me excited oddly. It is like me smelling superglue a lot when I was in junior high school or me smelling gasoline so much when I was in college. Though it's not as intoxicating as superglue :-) It occurred to me there are some things that make me excited oddly like this. Yesterday, in this fancy place, there was the elevator I was about to ride had transparent doors. You can see how elevator moves through the transparent doors obviously. I guess my nerd DNAs made me excited oddly.... But I don't jerk off to any of these in case you happen to wonder.... It's just innocent excitement that I was talking about :-) You have a wonderful week!
Hah hah Shigeki... that smell sounds nice. I've actually heard of Tatami...And I guess I am a nerd too because I like to see how the elevator (and other things) work.
TK
I think that the term that you were looking for was "floor mat"?
I didn't realize that they were green when brand new! I'm always learning something from this blog! :)
you're so cute getting excited with little things. :) yeah, tatami would be floor mat, but on a bigger scale. i always thought tatami would be lying under a bed? hmmm, my japanese is not so good.... when i was younger, i used to play with glue and cover my palms with them. i would let them dry for a while then i'd peel 'em off, felt like getting new skin. :)
i love those colours!
Hi TK,
Yup, it still smells nice in here :-) The mat you see during the Judo fight is also Tatami if you happen to care :-) Yup, I get so excited when I see something mechanical so transparent :-) You have a wonderful day!
HI Kirin,
Floor Mat. Yup. That's it. Thanks! Yup when they are brand new, they are so green and fresh just like me 20 years ago. :-) You have a wonderful day!
HI Mark,
I guess there is not a big excitement in my life right now. That might be it. Under a bed? huh. I don't know if I see that here though. You know the thing you did with superglue sounds so painful!!! I hope it was alright though. You have a wonderful day!
Hi Raph,
Yup, they are nicer :-) You have a wonderful day!
oh, it's not painful at all shigeki... it wasn't superglue i used, hehe, just an ordinary white glue one uses for art projects in school. :)
I on the other hand like the smell of new undies. :P
New tatami must be good to sleep on! The scent and wonderful futon..I want to sleep now..